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Fedora 44 : perl-Crypt-Argon2 / perl-Dist-Build / perl-ExtUtils-Builder / etc (2026-dafdad8fd3)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 318760

Synopsis

The remote Fedora host is missing one or more security updates.

Description

The remote Fedora 44 host has packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the FEDORA-2026-dafdad8fd3 advisory.

 Update to 0.031 #2477035 #2481131 fixes CVE-2026-8463

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Fedora security advisory.

Note that Nessus has not tested for this issue but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

Solution

Update the affected packages.

See Also

https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2026-dafdad8fd3

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 318760

File Name: fedora_2026-dafdad8fd3.nasl

Version: 1.1

Type: Local

Agent: unix

Published: 6/5/2026

Updated: 6/5/2026

Supported Sensors: Nessus Agent, Continuous Assessment, Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 2.2

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5

Temporal Score: 3.7

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2026-8463

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5.3

Temporal Score: 4.6

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L

Temporal Vector: CVSS:3.0/E:U/RL:O/RC:C

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:perl-crypt-argon2, p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:perl-extutils-builder, p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:perl-dist-build, p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:perl-extutils-builder-compiler, cpe:/o:fedoraproject:fedora:44

Required KB Items: Host/local_checks_enabled, Host/RedHat/release, Host/RedHat/rpm-list

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 5/27/2026

Vulnerability Publication Date: 5/13/2026

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2026-8463